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What About Us? A Letter from America’s Children by Ron Harris
Ron Harris is a journalist, adjunct professor at Howard University and co-author with Matt Horace, law enforcement and security contributor to CNN and the Wall Street Journal of The Black and The Blue, A Cop Reveals Crimes, Racism and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement (Hachette Books) on sale August 2018. Dear U.S. Media, […]
When Mother Goes Away
“Mommy Gone’”is the first piece in a series of vignettes, that might be the start of my memoir, which I have been resisting. Suddenly it feels right, timely. This story is my first memory of lost/separation and it still lingers today, five decades later. I sometimes wonder if that is why I am so […]
Salt, from a memoir by Milton Washington
Rarely did I wake before the rooster’s crow. But on that particular morning my eyes opened at least an hour before sunrise as my mother lay fast asleep next to me on the clay floor of our village home. It wasn’t a bad dream or the bitter South Korean cold that woke me, but rather, […]
Are Dreams More Important to African Americans? by Kristal Brent Zook
Every chance I get, I pull a neurobiologist or psychologist aside and compel him or her to tell me about the latest research on dreams and dreaming. The topic fascinates me. Not long ago I cornered Dr. Loma Flowers, psychiatrist and founder of Equilibrium Dynamics in San Francisco, into a phone interview. Dr. Flowers once […]
Blood on E. 5th Street, from Autobiography of the Lower East Side by Rashidah Ismaili
“This well established poet makes a brilliant debut in fiction with these complex, poetically detailed, interrelated stories of Blacks from Africa, the Caribbean and the USA who converge and form an artistic community in the early 1960s in the most easterly regions of Alphabet City .” –David Henderson, author of ‘Scuse Me While I […]
New Moon, New You: Reading the Signs
This New Moon Today is a good day to renew—you watchers of astrology know. August 25, 2014 is a new moon and in Virgo. New moons signal a time to launch new thoughts, actions, and feeling. The Virgo energy suggests that I’m on the right course in cleaning my closets, clearing out clutter and re-ordering […]
Telling Time: Morowa Yejide, author of Time of the Locust
I’m an explorer of the wonders of human behavior. If the world was comprised of five doors that read “Who, What, Where, When, and Why,” I would walk through the door that reads “Why.” My fictional family in Time of the […]
A Now & Later Man: Novelist Marcus Guillory
On Becoming an Author Publishing a book feels like getting tapped for some secret society. For the past seven years, anytime I was near a bookstore, I would go in, find the fiction section then have a moment of silence right at the spot where my book would be placed. I did this every […]
Losing My Hair Regained My Balance by Nicole Counts
Water was deep in my ears and trickled down the sides of my face as I continued to scrub my hair in the small bathroom sink, when I heard him say “hey.” He brushed past me, his hand grazing my back. I couldn’t tell whether it was intentional or not, but his touch made a […]
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